The Ultimate WordPress Checklist – Infographic

This Ultimate WordPress Checklist infographic covers the steps for building or maintaining a WordPress website. The maintenance sections is perfect for when you turn a website over to clients.

You will want to visit Capsicum Mediaworks for a detailed layout and links mentioned in this WordPress Checklist Infographic.

As you go through this list remember that you do not need to use every plugin suggested. If I had anything to add to this checklist it would be to keep your plugins to a minimum and as clean as possible.

There is a growing tendency among WordPress plugin makers to pack a plugin with irrelevant data like advertising or too many options. These eat your website’s load time. I highly recommend using P3 Plugin Performance Profiler during your set up process to check to see how well your plugin do.

Social Media share plugins are the worst! for being bloated. Here my list of Social Media Plugins that are light weight: Social Media Feather or  OSD Social Media Sharing

Your theme may have already included items that no longer require plugins. For example iTheme has it’s own Favicon up-loader built in.

There are a few plugins listed you no longer need with some of the WordPress updates:

Eliminate the need for image optimization plugins like TinyPNG or WP Smush it by optimizing your images before you load them to your website.

With that said check it out!

Sheila – Utah WordPress Designer

Killer WordPress Checklist [Infographic] by the team at Capsicum Mediaworks, LLP

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